So excited, in fact, they'll be heading down to EB Games Albert Street store in the centre of Brisbane for the official Australian launch event.

Proceedings kick off at 9.30pm on July 26 when StarCraft fans will doubtlessly thrill to the prospect of winning:

* the StarCraft trivia contest where you'll be tested on all manner of Zerg, Protoss and Terran history;
* the StarCraft sound-a-like contest where you'll perform your best unit impersonations;
* or the StarCraft cosplay contest where you'll try manfully to smoke a cigar.

Bliizard promises there'll be thousands of dollars of prizes to be won including gear from AMD, Razer, SteelSeries and lots of official Blizzard merchandise. There's also a live Q&A with StarCraft II producer Kaeo Milker.

While Brisbane will host the official launch, other EB stores around the country will be open on the evening of July 26 and, according to Blizzard, many of them will also be running special competitions and giveaways. So call your local store and find out what they're planning.

Who's planning to attend the midnight launch?

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Jarryd Stanley Guest

Jul 13, 2010, 11:12am

while your at it. if there any blizzard employees.. tell them to make some god dam australian wow servers...

There are, but they're just part of a rack of Servers located in the US. I think they're West COast Servers in the California cluster at Irvine, but I'm not 100% sure. The nearest actual server to Australia would be somewhere in Asia.

They've changed it in SC2. The servers (at least the ones for beta) are in Asia and include Singapore, Malaysia etc. Though most notably, not Korea (thank God). It's a step in the right direction, I've noticed the lag is almost nonexistent in beta compared to my 500 in WoW.

Because that 1/3 of a game is probably longer in Single player than alot of Console games are, as well as it coming with Multiplayer, which will probably still be popular 15 years from now when Starcraft 3 is released.

To clarify the 1/3 of a game, they're offering a full length experience, however they've announced their expansion packs (Which Blizzard have always done) before the initial game is released.

ugh so sick of hereing this from uninformed people.
Its not 1/3rd of a game.
SC1 had 30 mission played between 3 factions for 10missions a piece with 8-10 CGI cut scenes spread between the 30missions. it also had bog standard multiplay and came with a decent map maker. One expansion pack was offically made

SC2 30missions just for 1 faction lors more cinematics both ingame and CGI. Vastly improved story and story telling. Loads more units to use in singplayer. a vastly improved and superior mission maker than SC1 and even War3 editors. multiplayer with 3 unique factions with new units and tactics as well as units that are loved from the first game. 2 Offical expansion packs are almost assured.

I'm attending the midnight launch. My local EB store rang me the other day and asked if I would like my pre-order to be transfered there, I quickly said yes!
Should make for a great atmosphere, and because my pre-order will be there I know I wont miss out :D!

here I am about to go pre order it here in Australia and I can find no information on which EB is open for the midnight launch in Melbourne.

all my friends in Perth are not buying the game as it has no lan play. thats about 10 people not buying it. given I can't lan with them anyway i'm was considering buying this.

now I find out that the servers are in South East Asia. Having worked for iiNet and Telstra I can assure you the ping is bad compared to the US but even worse even the people who can speak English in south east asia won't. I've travelled every single south east asian country. there is a major cultural difference, and australia should not be mixed in with them. even the people on the west coast of united states are happy for australians to play with them.

so here I am with my money, and I am not pre-ordering Starcraft 2. I know I am not the only one. They need to fix the server situation for Australia for me to even consider this.

We don't buy this game for single player. It's only a multiplayer game for many including me.

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